Hello! I'm a student from the Philippines, studying European languages. Right now, I can speak French, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. I recently became engrossed (hmmmn... obsessed, more like ) with Greek, which I started to study just this summer, as a way to kill time. I got my first text and audio from the Foreign Language Institute, although I feel that the functional aims of the lessons were not... suited to me (Lesson 1 was, Me sinxorite, pu ine i prezvia/ to proksenio/ o stathmos? ).

Wow, hope this site can be of some help to me, and you guys, too! It would be nice to make some new friends.

I've been also using FSI course for a while but it was frustrating sometimes because I felt that I was learning nothing. I moved then to Cyprus Greek course and I am finishing the beginner's level (101&102). It's really nice and encouraging.
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/

Despite I am not registered (but I usually read such forums) like modus.irrealis says, Wordreference forums will be always helpful.

pianofortississimo wrote:@ Modus: So the Greek here is Katharevusa? Or something entirely different?

Like annis said, Ancient Greek -- roughly speaking the varieties of the Greek language that were spoken before the fourth century AD (although many works written after that date are written in those varieties). Katharevousa, on the other hand, is (very very roughly speaking) Modern Greek grammar with Ancient Greek inflections, but that means it has some similarities with Ancient Greek (and I've found that knowing one helps you with the other).